The MCP2200 is a USB-to-UART serial converter which enables USB connectivity in application that have a UART interface. The device reduces external components by integrating the USB termination ...

Mixed-signal chip maker Cygnal Integrated Products (Austin, Texas) now has available a power-managed USB-to-UART bridge chip. This IC is way cool, both literally and figuratively. Dubbed the CP2101, ...

USB-to-serial interface chips are contained in a 3 x 3 mm 12-pin DFN packag. The UART interface IC allows asynchronous serial data transfer, supporting data transfer rates from 300 bits/s to 3 Mbits/s ...

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Developers, hobbyists and electronic enthusiasts searching for a optically isolated USB to Serial adapter may be interested in a new piece of open source hardware called the ZeptoBit Isolated USB-UART ...

Debugging with printf is something [StorePeter] has always found super handy, and as a result he’s always been interested in tweaking the process for improvements. This kind of debugging usually has ...

Adafruit has unveiled a new addition to their range in the form of the Adafruit Metro Mini 328 that has been designed dot provide a USB-to-Serial connection. The Adafruit Metro Mini 328 takes the form ...

Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) has introduced USB interface modules which are aimed at the Raspberry Pi (RPi) computing platform. The Raspberry Pi embedded computing platform is ...

It was an interface that launched a thousand hacks. Near trivial to program, enough I/O lines for useful work, and sufficiently fast for a multitude of applications: homebrew logic analyzers, chip ...

In Part I of this article, I briefly mentioned the generic USB driver in the context of getting a USB device to communicate through it easily, with no custom kernel programming. Unfortunately, I ...